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'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.
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Atmosphere
Session
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I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.
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Psychological
Dramatically
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True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
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Deals
Dread
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What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.
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Drew
Making Movies
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Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.
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Film Business
Tendency
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I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
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Epiphany
Heroic
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I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
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Familiar
Drawn
Partly
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If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.
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Surprising
Unexpected
Obligated
Smaller
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Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'
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Session
Destroy
Romantic Comedy
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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Chasing
Essence
Realise
Tail
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I've always liked dark, creepy movies, but for some reason, I started on the film scene with romantic comedies.
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Creepy
Comedies
Romantic Comedies
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I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.
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Corporate
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I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire to do them.
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Anyone Else
Myself Doing See
Comedies
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There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.
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Explanation
Providing
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No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.
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Explanations
Mysteries
Respects
Superior
Valid
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As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.
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Faith Your People
Distributor
Right People
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As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'
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New Testament
Revelations
Species
Testament
New Way Always
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If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.
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Excites
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My favorite filmmakers are in the Kubrick, Polanski kind of mold. I just like that world. I think it's more cinematic and gets under your skin more.
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Cinematic
Mold
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You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.
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Requirements
Problematic
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We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.
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Disorder
Multiple
Aspects
Exhibit
Personality Disorder
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I don't know, maybe I just like to mix it up and have a more of an eclectic need to just try out new things and road test ideas and try out a genre that I haven't done before.
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Eclectic
New Things
Mix
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I just like stories in which characters are struggling with something, whether it's an external force like in 'Vanishing,' or in 'Session 9,' where it's more of a monster within the mind.
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Session
Vanishing
External
Monster
Struggling
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I did a lot of traveling after college on trains through India, China, and Russia. I somehow managed to make it back in one piece, and I actually pulled a lot of the anecdotal experiences into the making of 'Transsiberian.'
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China
College
Russia
Anecdotal
Experiences
Trains
Piece
Pulled
Somehow
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I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.
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Last Summer
Mtv
Followed
Horror Movie
Quick
Soundtrack
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I don't think of the 'indie film world' as this cohesive kind of world anyhow. It's so disparate: all these different filmmakers seeking financing from many different sources to make different kinds of movies. It's hard to pinpoint a trend, really.
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Different Kinds
Seeking
Anyhow
Cohesive
Disparate
Film World
Indie
Indie Film
Pinpoint
Sources
Trend
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I'm extremely excited about working with Troika on 'The Hive.' This script has two elements I always look for in a thriller - strong, believable female characters and a smart, very dark and very creepy story that will definitely resonate with large audiences.
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Believable
Creepy
Dark
Elements
Female
Female Characters
Smart
Audiences
Extremely
Hive
Large
Resonate
Script
Thriller
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Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.
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Persistence
Vehicle
Batman
Franchise
Independent Movies
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When I went to Sundance back in 1998, indie film was all the rage, and Miramax was throwing down five or six million dollars for several films each year. Those were the salad days of indie film, and those days are over. I'm not out there worrying too much about it.
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Million Dollars
Sundance
Throwing
Each Year
Indie
Indie Film
Miramax
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'Session 9' can be interpreted in different ways. You can get the sense that Gordon breathes in an evil spirit but can also be read as a much more clinical movie that shows a man who becomes unhinged or may be going mad. An inspiration was Nicolas Roeg's 'Don't Look Now.'
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Different Ways
Session
Breathes
Clinical
Gordon
Interpreted
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It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.
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Boston
Canada
Elsewhere
Funky
Historical
Streets
Buildings
Great City
Neighborhoods
Winding
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In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.
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Boston
Earnest
Editing
Short Films
Assistant
Experience Movies People
Belt
Editor
Initially
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I think it is harder to scare young people because there is an ironic hipster stance that you have to take in relation to pop culture. You know you're being manipulated. People are so aware of the manipulation. We're all aware that movies toy with us and pull our strings. There was a time when people just didn't acknowledge that as much.
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Acknowledge
Ironic
Manipulation
Pop Culture
Relation
Scare
Stance
Strings
Time Movies Culture
Manipulated
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